Evergreen native Rebecca Renaud has a baby picture of herself with President Lyndon B. Johnson on TV in the background.

Ordinarily that wouldn't mean much, but now it's more than 40 years later, and Renaud is moving to Johnson City, Texas, where she is the new facility manager of the Lyndon B. Johnson National Historic Park.

Her domain includes 120 buildings, the Texas White House, the LBJ Ranch, LBJ's boyhood home, his grandfather's home, an airplane hangar and 100 head of cattle, among other things.

Construction workers are paving the way for a major change in how books get returned and re-shelved at the Evergreen Public Library.

Automated book sorters are being installed in seven Jefferson County libraries, including Evergreen. One of the machines is already functioning in the Belmar Library.

In the last few weeks workers have removed the double glass entry doors and pushed them back about 8 feet into the library interior to make room for a new book-drop slot. Installation is expected to be complete by early July.

An Evergreen man who was tried for felony menacing and found guilty of lesser charges in a gun incident involving EDS Waste Solutions workers was sentenced May 31 to one year of probation, during which he is prohibited from possessing a gun.

Cliff Farrell, 76, of Blue Creek Road originally was charged with a felony offense of menacing, which entails a possible sentence of one to three years in jail.

The Jefferson County commissioners voted 3-0 on May 31 to approve development plans in Upper Bear without the eight-hour aquifer test called for in mountain zoning regulations.

The decision to waive the aquifer test came against the strenuous recommendations of members of the county's own planning and zoning staff.

Instead of doing the test, the developer will be required to make a note on the official subdivision blueprint or plat that a new owner must perform an aquifer test before purchasing a building permit.

Colorado Highway 5 to the top of Mount Evans was fully opened by the Colorado Department of Transportation on June 2.

Crews spent the last few days clearing snow from Summit Lake to the top — a 4-mile stretch.
The road was opened from Echo Lake to Summit Lake on May 26, but heavier than usual snowfall last month prevented CDOT from opening the highway to the top. In recent years, Colorado 5 had been open to the summit before Memorial Day.